--- title: A family at a big parade in New York had not agreed where to meet; t… — Good manners and safety in town: shops, restaura… · tree and pragmatics description: A family at a big parade in New York had not agreed where to meet; their son got separated, and it took police three frightening hours to reunite them. Who acts: family. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:14 # text = A family at a big parade in New York had not agreed where to meet; their son got separated, and it took police three frightening hours to reunite them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 parade parade NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 9 York York PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 agreed agree VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 separated separate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ _ 24 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 25 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 26 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 27 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl:unmarked 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 reunite reunite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **agree** *speech: agree* | past · perfect | a family at a big parade in New York | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **meet** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a family at a big parade in New York *not said here* | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **separate** | past · passive | | places's son | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **take** | past | | family | police | | hour | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent police=Theme | | 5 | **reunite** | to-infinitive | | police | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town.lesson:14`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Good manners and safety in town: shops…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/13/) - next →: [Good manners and safety in town: shops…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/311-good-manners-and-safety-in-town/)